A 12-year-old pupil of Birchwood High School, Warrington, has been crowned a European Street Dance champion after competing in a prestigious competition in Germany.
Kaitlen Williams went to European Street Dance championships with the Aim Sky High dance company from Manchester, where she has trained for three years.
She danced solo, with a partner and in a group and got through to the European competition with her partner, Zara, in a duo performance when they achieved first place in the British heats
They travelled to Kalkar in Germany along with other qualifying members of the company, 71 of them virtually taking over the plane! At the competition, they competed against dancers from all over Europe.
Kaitlen and Zara performed against 14 other duos and secured first place, making them European Champions, and carrying off a medal and an enormous trophy.
Winning this competition automatically qualifies the girls to compete in next year’s final in The Netherlands.
When Kaitlen was told that she had qualified to compete she said that she was really excited to take part. She also said that it was “scary” as she was performing with someone else and was worried about letting her partner down as the dancing and timing had to be really tight and that was really difficult.
When they won however, she said: “We were so excited we screamed our heads off. Getting that medal and trophy was amazing”.
Kaitlen is crowned a European Street Dance champion
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